The feature shows up as a cropmark, a phenomenon where buried or disturbed soil causes overlying crops to grow differently, producing a ghostly outline visible only in aerial photographs. In this case, the mark of what appears to be a substantial pit or quarry was recorded in digital aerial photographs taken in July 2006, and had already appeared in an earlier survey series from 1995.

What makes the feature quietly interesting is its age relative to the landscape around it. The field bank and drain that once ran on a roughly north-northeast to south-southwest alignment across this ground were recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, making them already old by the time of that early mapping effort. Yet the pit pre-dates even those features, meaning whatever function it served, whether extraction of stone, clay, or some other material, it belongs to an earlier phase of land use entirely. Those field boundaries have since been removed, erasing one layer of the landscape, but the pit persists beneath the surface in the soil's memory. About eighty metres to the east-southeast lies a rath, the term for a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that dominates the Irish early medieval countryside. Whether the two features are connected in any way is not recorded, but their proximity adds a certain texture to what is otherwise an unremarkable stretch of Wexford lowland.